Liver disease, how to fight

The liver can be called the largest organ of the entire human body. It is entrusted with a large number of functional tasks, without which the body can not live. The liver removes toxins, secretes a special secretion and bile, synthesizes many biologically active substances and clearly keeps the energy balance of the entire human body.

Important is the fact that it is in the liver that erythrocytes are produced and accumulated, and the blood is filtered. It is the liver that makes of everything that we eat, that we breathe in, important for humans and vital substances for health. The human immune system is constantly under the control of the liver, it takes part in all metabolic processes of the body. So it turns out that the liver is a very important organ, and it is absolutely necessary to know about its possible problems and diseases. After all, even a small malfunction in the liver can lead to incredible in magnitude consequences for human health.

Diseases of the liver, photos and medical names

- Primary cancer.
- Liver failure.
- Hypochromatosis.
- Cirrhosis.
- Hepatolenticular dystrophy.
- Different types of hepatitis.
- Hepatoses.
- Hepatolienal syndrome.

Liver disease, the causes of the appearance

- Drinking alcohol in large quantities.
- Hepatitis and other viral diseases.
- Weak human immune system.
- Metabolic disorders in the body.
- Some hereditary diseases.
-Toxic substances, some medicines.
- Inflammation of the pancreas and gallbladder, other diseases, syndromes.

Liver can damage other factors, all and not enumerate, but with certainty it can be said that the most common of them is malnutrition. People like to overeat or, on the contrary, eat very rarely, do not include vitamins and other useful substances in the diet.

Alcoholism

This is another common cause, especially in our country, provoking a serious liver disease. There are problems with long, from 10 to 12 years, the use of alcoholic beverages. There is a disease in fatty degeneration, cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis. An early stage of the disease is fatty degeneration, which passes independently after giving up alcohol after 2-4 weeks.

Alcoholic hepatitis causes weakness, nausea and vomiting, weight loss, jaundice, pain in the right upper quadrant. The organ is dense and enlarged in size. The final stage is a liver disease, called cirrhosis, when there is a pronounced impairment of functions, with it the likelihood of developing cancer. Such liver disease is treated with a complete refusal of alcohol, the use of essential phospholipids and corticosteroids, and the late stage of the disease involves organ transplantation.

The average daily dose of pure ethanol, which provokes liver disease, for men is 40-80 g, for women - more than 20 g. One ml of alcohol contains approximately 0.79 g of ethanol. Therefore, the refusal of the alcohol habit, proper nutrition and strict adherence to the prescriptions of the doctor becomes both the prevention of the disease, and the way to be cured of the addiction.